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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57312</law_id><section_number>6.2-616</section_number><catch_line>Discharge of financial institution upon payment</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Deposits and Accounts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Multiple-Party Accounts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Payment made pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Financial institution duties; multiple-party accounts; multiple-fiduciary accounts" href="/6.2-612/">6.2-612</a> through <a class="law" title="Payment of trust account" href="/6.2-615/">6.2-615</a> discharges the <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> from all claims for amounts so paid whether or not the payment is consistent with the beneficial ownership of the <span class="dictionary">account</span> as between parties, P.O.D. payees, beneficiaries, or fiduciaries, or their successors. <a id="paragraph-209896" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-616/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The discharge provided by subsection A does not extend to payments made after a <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> has received written notice from any <span class="dictionary">party</span> able to <span class="dictionary">request</span> present payment to the effect that <span class="dictionary">withdrawals</span> in accordance with the terms of the <span class="dictionary">account</span> should not be permitted. Unless the notice is withdrawn by the <span class="dictionary">person</span> giving it, or the successor of any deceased <span class="dictionary">party</span> has concurred in any demand for <span class="dictionary">withdrawal</span>, a discharge provided by subsection A shall not apply to <span class="dictionary">withdrawals</span> permitted by the <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span>. <a id="paragraph-209897" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-616/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No other notice or any other information shown to have been available to a <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> shall affect its right to the discharge provided by subsection A. The discharge provided by subsection A shall have no bearing on the rights of parties in disputes between themselves or their successors concerning the beneficial ownership of funds in, or withdrawn from, <span class="dictionary">multiple-<span class="dictionary">party</span> accounts</span> or <span class="dictionary">multiple-<span class="dictionary">fiduciary accounts</span></span>. <a id="paragraph-209898" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-616/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If any <span class="dictionary">party</span>, or the personal representative of any <span class="dictionary">party</span>, notifies the <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> in writing not to permit <span class="dictionary">withdrawals</span> by any <span class="dictionary">party</span>, the <span class="dictionary">financial institution</span> may refuse, without liability, to allow any <span class="dictionary">withdrawal</span> pending the determination of the rights of the parties. <a id="paragraph-209899" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-616/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1979, c. 407, &#xA7; 6.1-125.13; 2010, c. 794; 2020, c. 259.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
